Welfare has devastating costs: even the British left have noticed. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended the contested in the sword Reform of public subsidies for the disabled and sickannounced yesterday in Parliament by the Minister of Labor Liz Kendall. The reform provides significant cuts that will allow the government to save 5 billion pounds (6 billion euros) by 2030. According to Starmer, the cost of welfare has become “devastating” for public finances of the United Kingdom. In an intervention published today on the Times, the Premier stressed that the “percentage of people judged incapacitated at work” by social services has increased considerably. He added: “By 2030, the expenditure for the inability in working age and the aids for disabilities will reach 70 billion pounds per year”.
This reform is part of a wider context of Reduction of public spending in welfarein a period of internal economic difficulties and international tensions. The plan also comes after the announcements of a massive increase in the budget for defense and rearmament. However, the proposal has aroused new criticisms, both by some Labor deputies and from organizations that defend the rights of the disabled and vulnerable. According to the Resolution Foundation, a progressive Think Tank that deals with social and work problems, over a million people risk losing the most important disability subsidies, personal Independent Payments (PIP), due to the intensity of the criteria to obtain them.
The controversy On the intervention on the welfare of the Labor government are vibrant. The priority is to review access to the subsidy until the age of 22. If some left -wing parliamentarians, associations and NGOs in support of disabled people have strongly criticized the reforms and have said that some of the most vulnerable in society could lose thousands of pounds, there are those who have strokes the plan of Starmer Minister, which would be missing “vision and ambition”.
The interventions proposed by the Government provide for the tightening of the rules for the access of people to payments for personal independence (PIP), who are paid to disabled people to help them cover the additional sustenance costs deriving from their condition. Helen Whately, shadow secretary for work and pensions, recalled that In the last 14 years the Labor Party had opposed the conservative plans to review the subsidy system.
With all due respect to the left narrative, it is the greatest cut to the support of social security since 2015. But it is certainly an intervention in line with the liberal vision.
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